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Joseph Conrad's moral journey.(Critical essay)

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From: Queen's Quarterly
Date: 20051222
Author:Bell, Fraser

 
    ... the heaviest seas run with the wind. Facing it--always facing 
    it--that's the way to get through. You are a young sailor. Face it. 
    JOSEPH CONRAD, Typhoon 

ALTHOUGH he became a naturalized citizen of a country with a long maritime literary heritage--from Daniel Defoe to Robert Louis Stevenson--Joseph Conrad's place in English letters is surely unique. Who of Conrad's contemporaries could claim that he had been a political exile by his sixth birthday and the mate of a clipper ship before he was out of his twenties? Who among them had been up the Congo River, or ...

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